Manchester United

Ryan Giggs wants to be Man United manager, and you can hardly blame him. Despite their recent issues, it’s still one of the biggest jobs in world football. Giggs has been at United for the majority of his life, Old Trafford was his home, with Sir Alex being a father figure to him; and now […]

Decision-making is a fundamental part of football. On the pitch, good decision-making can separate the great from the good. Every player is capable of making a poor decision here and there, not seeing a pass or selfishly trying to go it alone. At least with players, if they do make a poor decision, they usually […]

A wounded animal is a dangerous thing, and that is exactly what Jose Mourinho is right now. Unsurprisingly he is yet to comment on his remarkable sacking by Chelsea, he will do so soon and there is no doubt that it will be explosive. Just as explosive as his last interview as Chelsea manager in […]

There seems to be some trouble looming in paradise when it comes to love birds Louis van Gaal and Wayne Rooney. Love is blind and that can be the only explanation for why van Gaal seems oblivious to Rooney’s non-stop dismal performances. Regardless of how bad Rooney may have been, he was unsubbable, undroppable and […]

Gladjakker – Dutch saying: smooth talker who tells you what you want to hear Kwibus – Dutch saying: a weird, idiosync­­ratic person It’s hard to imagine what goes on inside Louis Van Gaal’s strangely shaped head (let’s invent a shape to describe his cranium – a vangaalagon). He doesn’t appear to be oblivious to United’s […]

Rooney is on the wane. Even at his peak, he was prone to explosive bursts of excellence rather than long term consistency. Now the bursts have gone and we are left with persistent mediocrity. It’s no longer a shock when Rooney doesn’t play well; it’s a shock when he does. He wouldn’t be the first […]

Nowhere else but in the England managers job would there be speculation over the successor, around 10 months before their appointment. This week the odds of Pep Guardiola becoming the third foreigner and first wearer of exquisite checked shirts to take on the poisoned chalice of world football shortened significantly, as rumours of the FA […]

It’s hard not to get swept away with the wave of negativity washing over Man Utd. With messages like “disaster”, “circus” and “embarrassing” being constantly rammed down our throats through the media in all its twisted forms, it almost feels as though our subconscious is being attacked and reprogrammed, leaving rational thought and sane deduction […]

David De Gea is still a Man United player. Strange, I know. De Gea to Real Madrid was meant to be the most done deal of all done deals this summer. Yet here we are, middle of August and he is still a United player. However, what was once appearing to be a stalemate transfer […]

Blog number eight in the “Doing the 92” challenge is about my visit to Old Trafford; home to Manchester United. I thought that with the big teams (Man U, Arsenal, Chelsea etc.) that I would either get lucky with getting a ticket or know someone who knows how to get cheap tickets. However, for this […]